Some Durango-area residents say the train whistle is louder this summer compared with previous years, but the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad says the historic sound is unchanged. Durango ...

WASHINGTON -- The distant whistle of a passing train is about to get a little more distant. The Federal Railroad Administration announced Wednesday the first limit on how loud a whistle can be and set ...

Construction on a multi-million Fargo-Moorhead project that would silence train whistle noise downtown is expected to be complete by the end of fall if not sooner. The project is designed to enhance ...

Elaine Kellerman of Parkville cringes when she hears people describe the sound coming from a train’s horn as “noise.” “To me, the whistles of the train, they are like the song of the train,” she said.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. PARKVILLE, Mo. — The familiar sounds of ...

Several cities have recently worked to pass ordinances to prohibit train whistles from sounding within their city limits. Safety matters aside, I hope all such ordinances fail. I don't care when they ...

YAKIMA — For the next four months at least, that lonesome whistle won’t blow when a train rolls through downtown. An experimental quiet zone includes five railroad crossings where trains traditionally ...

Danay Hershey is ready to buy her own house. But not near Paradise Township. That’s because of the train whistles, she said. Hershey, 29, and her father Dan, 58, said they’ve lived within earshot of ...